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THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1
The BORDER AND BETWEEN TALY DANCE
and
JDEL
ET
South-eastern France, as far as and including Nice, was given by Italy to France through the efforts of the same emperor who Jost Alsace and Lorraine. The people speak Italian to this day more easily than French. Country one of superb mountains, rising from the foot-hills to snow-crowned Alps, while along the sea is a strip of orange and lemon groves, from which emerge beautiful villas and huge hotels. Magenta and Solferino gave not only this paradise to France but wonderful Savoy as well.
[By LILIAN HAYDEN HIESTON.]
mountain peake
AST FO
This border land is so lovely with ita, muttle there piratas who through scenery that has few equals in 1
mikalienate, its flowers, its little beaches and rocky headlands with the background of sleep hills and mountains that even the families of Roman emperom made long atay here in the days when Homs ruled the world. This mally all kept, face it hay for many years. Roman legions made their way through this region into Gant and the final victory in these mountain passes was celebrated by the erection of a huge tower, very elabor- ale and beautiful, with a statue of Augustus Caesar nineteen feet tall upon the manmit; La Turbie, far above the but visible from it. On this tower were inscribed the names of all the native tribes conquared and it was by forced labour of these brave, delestel Galiona that the enormous stones were quarried and put in place.
to the native tribes
Killed Their Own Women and Children. These intive people had lived in little
She Lived 3,000 Centuries.
Ago, and Her ... Skull, Recently Dug Up Shows That She Bore Some Resemblance to a Gorilla-The Original Wild Woman Kept House in a Hole in a Clift.
[By RENE BACHE.]
There lived in Europe, at least thre thousand conturion ago, a raco él gorilla. Wlike people whose skäleinus, or fragments
of them
have been dug up in widoly Separated places.
It was at first supposed that they re presumed un ancestral stock from which we ouranives must se derivel, Lut this is
KUNI
Brow duemort doul.inl. Anthropologists inclined to think that they may eventually have vanished from the ince of the earth, and that our own race may descended from another brauch of the Buman tren.
They were buiten, ne shath of thint. Tet in
effect they were wild animals, nelling an caves, cull rock shelter. 1. possibly in hotes in the ground. A Falltage which they occupied has recently been discovered, nor the futie modern Stown of La Quina, in Franco, a tew olles
northomat of the city Bordeaux.
· The houser-camps wind-the village were dozer, or more holes in the face of a vertical elif. Overhanging them was a helf of rock which served an 's sort of proof, protecting the entrances against rain Stadt snow.
One of the inhabitants of that primitive village was a woman, wine akull, was
up a short time ago at the baan of the
2. Special Interest attaches to her
to be out of
infested the Mediterranean. They seem to have beonjicaco-loving men but very brave when war was forced upon them, One tribe deliberately killed ovory child and women rather than let them be taken
Remaps and then died to the last
defending their stronghold. The Greck colonies farther along the const, en al Marseilles and Arles, made friends of the Romans but these mountain tribes world have none of them and contested every foot of the Roman progress. The final Roman victory after years of struggle was celebrated at Roine with great splendour and much rejoicing. It made possible the entrance into and conquest of Gaul. Villages Built on Precipitous Hill-Sides The mountains rose sómteeply from the sta that the only possible route for namies was above on the hills, where is now the marvellous Corniche read, which winds and turn upon itself and goes along
PRINCE CENTRE DCTAE
KYLERDLERANCE
Those tiny places aro alill inhabited by foll feats of ongineering, being built over ashy, unsociable people. looking ask- mountains and along precipitous rocks,
the world. One sees the deep blue of the seo far below and towering above are the anec at the tourists who flock to see their and over deep gorges and rushing tor snowy Alps. There are gorges and water. curious tones. How they tot supplements. La Grande is way up on top of falls and rock so desplate and wild that in questiou, they are miles up in the
the mountains and irom it one obtains it seems like some infernal region, then air, sul Rosetimes far from any road.
views of snowy Alps and of the entire hill-sides by
One climbs to
them to vegetation and
in göt
as goats climb by rough mountaic paths, along pre- Cover, ani clinging close to the slope a
coast. Ta Petite in song the shore and cipitcm heights; where the least mistake was perhaps the most difcall of all to build an the rocks rise out of the water tiny walled village whose ladder-like streets ries by means of thousands of in choosing one's foothold may masa
in many piacos with steep sides and the rocky steps out the solid rock. These death. The ordinary tourist is satisfied
mad had to be sliced out of the
edges of eettlemente are built in every case of the with anug what the famous "Grande the cliffs or tunnelled through them. All
riace rock and are exactly the colour Cornish" can bring within his reach.
three of
nak try rocks have miles of support. of the hills, se it is dimoult--to dia-
-ing-mary-to-keep-them-in-place For tinguish them until one is
very close.
tara thousand years of modern ltistory it Their wails and houses are continuation
was considered impossible to build say of the rock, following the slant of the
rind here and people who wished to enter rock surface. Sometimes the slope is so མ
France from Italy went by ses to Mar- steep that one side of a house has several
milies, as did Catherine and Marie de more worls than the other side. If one
Medici of Florence when they went with, knows the way one can go all throngli
great retinues to marry kings of France, one a village by means of different
The Corniche d'Or is the coast road from Marsailles, in the direction of Nice. houses nad tunnelled paths.
~Wonderfal-Roade:~~~ There are three very wonderful roads here that always remind me of the thres bears in the story. There the Grande, the Moyendo, and the Potita, Corniche, inst as there was the big and the middle sized and the little bear, furthermore there in the Lesvtiful Oniche d'Or, the golden road, which may stand for the Ajeet malden of the story.
These aro
There is no water in the world so lovely. as this sen. At times it is like heaps and heaps of Hght blue gauze, then the mist lifts, and the water is all shaies of emerald, again it is violet with tints an opal has, and again it looks deep porpio and at dann soatne like golden fire shad, off into roms away from the shining path of the rising sun. The coast faces dus cant or want or south. Ona can sen the x rise or wet, out of or inte, the magis water: It is one beauty of this coust that ik winds and turns and gives one overs ongle from which to see its nazvola.
Frostlaz-TownG, -
San Remo aid Bordighera ara the first Italian towns after the frontier station of Vintimilio, Bordighera coming Brst. It is on the end of a point of land and surveys the entire coast. It is perhaps the loveliest of all the Riviere places. Its ranges and lemons and flowers and paine are noted and it has the privilege of fur mishing all the palma for St. Peters at Rome on Palm Sunday. It a favourite resort of the Italian royal family, San
tecutul, far inors, artificial than its Lever fashionable and very sister town. On the French -vida- ara Benton, with its suburb of Garavan, ne
Anet the aristocratic riot covered with magni
As Cop hed
Napoleon 111. Napoleon gave France much and he robbed her of mush. In aiding the Halians against the invading Ayralian he won their gratitude and the result ránce of qulte & lice was the giving to France of Italy. This was contented land, heid nobles: Counts of Savoy and bl powering factions: Genon, Sardinia, Provence, Rome, and Sicily, all claimed it at various times, and fought for its possesion After the Ficiories Magenta and Solfering against the Ausfinite and villus known
| Martin, where the Empress Eugenio trians the central government of claimed, the right t
Empress of Austria cítun cama Bayand to France in recognition of the help the pinturesque old town of Rogue. given by Napoleon III and him eddiers.
then Monte Carlo. A popular vote was taken and the coun try sound Nice was overwhelmingly in favour of belonging to France, so in 1880 it was annexed to France, as was also Savoy, the inost picturesque part of modern Franco,
WAS THIS ANCIENT WOMAN AN
ANCESTRESS OF OURS?
because she was the only female of her when an animi was killat, they tore finita cure the simy stall was otipped rine whose rematos have ever been brought to light. The skull in remark- the Bath of its bones much as we org away and the fragments of tone-pot F ably well preserved. The forward-pro-accustomed to tackle a chicken leg
doth, are bove the
ment bony ridges,
Bho Was No Lady.
age when she died.
and
erthor.Whon that had boen, accen
ths hobia, the
The physical aspect of tub hunters in extraordinarily wild and choouth. They
SKULL
OF THE
QF LA QUINA AS IZMAS:
to dead this to her home cail whore the Empiror and.
brune and, the
Monaco and Monte Carlo am sup..
poried almost wholly by the Casino and those who flock to lose their money in it The other towns raise much fruit and many flowers to send away.
ably they were set also for blankets. The placing together of paria of skins for body coverings must have offered the first suggestion of sewing. Perhaps the woman ni La Quina knew how to sew. actor a lowhion, with reindeer sinews for thread.
First Houses Ever Built:
Vorden of La
family occupied uns, with her
which had exceptional advantages. To use the term of the modern resi estate agent
asdesirable, realdende, delightfully
located." There was even Tanning water, just outside, The cliff.bola was not only weather proof but impregnable to-attackAlso, it was safe against in vasion by wild animals.
The list was a matter of great.... Im- for in those times the daya,
porta Cave bear, and the sabre--
tion.
toothed tiger-all three long ago extinst
were croatures to
to be greatly feared, especially by
people provided with
only
grizzly.
The
the primitivn weapons da dele The tiger was much larger than
and the bat to-day, half again
3.8 big bear and the llon were disposed to dispute Forex that were socesible ta
-Waa
Elont forty-fire your theme to outdogether with Towels At the core im, are the spot with flint knives; and the parteman di La Quins, who doubt wanta; but the drove of the worgan of
are notkeably short of stature, enormous" ly amanlar, with short and heavy legs, which long ago disappeared from the and, when possession of fire was thus Bengal specs of They do not hold themselves ereck, but face of the earth, obtained, it could be kept
with a walk
bodies, misrk
The gams, when kiled, wes cat op or definitely in a rotten lag, thiết k
14may be taken) for granted. tate-kha:ith human belligy the hose gratug their beards are veriteful for meat were carried home to the woman
She must-have
Vi
oling jawa, still staluing fourteen By the use of certain evidential data, plished, the skull was fairly complete... Balonce has been able to restruct after astonishingly
Primitive Home Lik fashion the mode of Hfe of the apdient in to see my of must bad ones been eya-sockets are heavy and pro
Woman of La Qui Prmurtably the been clayey and were found shipped. oseupied ber: all hole in company with
and Jahoe point her husband
stone halves
en a rather forosloda-looking creature,
mportant advantage reindeer, and non quina lived able manor nearly concealing their faces village. Perhaps the meat with eaten a wife, and mother had more children. An Important advantage period when the wante el La Quins Hved dmanifestly for, chigance wia of a of the location lay in the Ciconmstance the climate of southernt Lampe was very and spreading over their chesta. They ww poopla ko low in the scale of human some sort for holding water and other / Qulua, light up on the vertical face of the".
way in which her forehead slopes bollom along the beno of the clif. Jords, and mapostles Creator Took like wild bearts on two legs; end; 'divelopmquas, may have bad Do Eauwledge- Upplås. She and anther; or, taking into ♬ wolten ·
Ono muy judge that from that a small stream, ran over ➡ pebbly
officeivably have made and beast Immunity so fat as they
Trore
concerned. It was
It was sale, sinó from cakes to all, intenta," and purposes, that is just oooking. But, it; ïa": to be preeninad vessels of wood of imitiveness of her The first APIE KAAPSTA
view the extreme
1bb caflient domesélo serangements." It soetal, more men are the thrown stofis and the tras
that skolfs of anima
animals served the branch, employed 29 4 likely
club Es
order, ckward, will depression behind thrishlog a ready supply of water to drink.
my ridges aforaminitioned. The knif I ran in a bra of clavoy sand, pues,
roamed Inežila "all Over" that'regi
One CAD imaging the women of tay cliff. what they are village, od roshiny day, alfing
has mewhatalmiler the bank of that alham end. Iar bank of the little stresin foeth dy huge lo dec, honderd old rook, that
wonder wozied' skull was found. L'ethapa wie in the
stall preserved - and almost white, was buried there: --At all,syente, přes | home, their
mah ge und down deel less by ure ind
awing of Jr dem. No, gouder inh
Ahoull be realized that her
minit (-lava depedded for: Lied precacions suppX" Crnite and
Adajjumbed it in such when tɔ ↑ the animals,
for its to overlapan to
Were these men
that they were acquainted with fire, and used 10 13 latat to keep thantel ves warm Ta cold
“would” häidly in Enva Fast ɛto makeř 14, bv.
used: -navigen employ↑
esdoncation
rich most
Bus bly pods
winter Abd end ber
the und
receptasiss